Bug 519122

Summary:	[RHEL5]: New package inclusion request - xz
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Chris Lalancette <clalance>
Component:	xz	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.5	CC:	a.badger, jnovy, mcermak, pknirsch, rvokal, syeghiay, xen-maint
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clones:	564321 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-03-30 07:58:38 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	532025
Bug Blocks:	517049, 564321

Description Chris Lalancette 2009-08-25 09:39:31 UTC

Description of problem:
As of Linux 2.6.30, the kernel can be compressed with a few different compression methods.  One of them is LZMA, which gives very good compression ratios.  Unfortunately, the RHEL-5 distribution lacks an LZMA library, so RHEL-5 cannot decompress these kernels.  This is important because the RHEL-5 Xen tools need to be able to decompress these kernels to boot paravirtualized guests.  See also BZ 517049.  To satisfy this request, we should pull the xz package from EPEL into RHEL-5.5.

Comment 1 Suzanne Logcher 2009-10-23 16:23:32 UTC

*** Bug 522532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Denise Dumas 2009-10-27 19:00:47 UTC

Adding Jindrich Novy as the RHEL5 owner

Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2009-10-29 07:13:43 UTC

Please provide QA ack. XZ is ready to be built.

Comment 5 Jindrich Novy 2009-10-29 15:47:25 UTC

xz-4.999.9-0.1.beta.20091007git is now imported in the newly created RHEL5 branch.

Comment 6 Chris Lalancette 2009-10-29 16:32:44 UTC

Excellent, thanks!  Now we just need to get it into a tree compose, and we should be good to go for Xen.

Thanks again,
Chris Lalancette

Comment 7 Jindrich Novy 2009-10-30 15:26:53 UTC

It is needed to add xz to approved components. Otherwise I'm unable to file erratum.

Comment 8 Jindrich Novy 2009-11-02 15:05:02 UTC

Errata tool still claims:

Idsfixed Component xz for 519122 is not on the approved components list.

even though xz is now listed in:

http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/RHEL5U5ApprovedPackages.html

Something is really broken here.

Comment 12 Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2010-02-13 02:59:47 UTC

Note, the xz package is currently in EPEL-5 at NVR, xz-4.999.9-0.1.beta.20091007git.el5 .  If you want to make sure that the RHEL-5 package replaces that, please bump the release ( for instance, to xz-4.999.9-0.2.beta.20091007git.el5 ).

Also, when you know the package is going in, please let the el-5 maintainer (that's me) or the epel mailing list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list) know so we can block the package from further updates there.

Thanks!

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 07:58:38 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2010-0189.html

Comment 18 Paolo Bonzini 2010-04-08 15:44:08 UTC

This bug was closed during 5.5 development and it's being removed from the internal tracking bugs (which are now for 5.6).